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pissed off I just had about 20 to 30 minutes of my time wasted because the person to whom I was speaking wasn't listening. I've offered to do the copies for the NJ PodCaster Association meeting tonight, so Chris from the Martini Shot sent me over the file just like the one he used for last month's newsletter. He mentioned that he was able to get 'er done at the Office Max Copy Shop. "Hey," I figured, "I'll find one closer here... because if I have to use the one near the house, my time's gonna be waaaaayyyy tight."
I dug up the closest Office Max to my office here, and trundled on over. I walked in, and handed over my flash drive, and the woman behind the counter pulled up the file. I explained that I wanted to do a colour newsletter, folded so that page 1 and 6 were on 1 side of the 11X17 paper and 2 and 5 were on the other. Then 3 and 4 would be on their own 8 1/2 X 11 sheet as an insert. Note that I mentioned this at the beginning of the conversation. The rest of the time she spent apologizing because:
- she didn't know how to use Adobe Acrobat
- she had to answer the phone and quote a price
- she had just realized how I wanted to format the newsletter, and her colour output can't do that
When I worked retail, I made the effort to hear as much of what a person wanted before I began answering questions. For people who took the time to explain what they wanted, I made sure to pay really close attention. How frickin' hard is it for people to pay frickin' attention to customers.
THIS is why I hate going to service industry shops here in the US. Somehow, the fact that I'm in the shop spending money is an inconvenience to the people behind the counter.
I need to go kick a puppy.
Note: no actual puppies will be harmed, that's just a statement as to how pissed off I am.
September 26 2005, 13:52:37 UTC 6 years ago
Hmmm....
Looks like Orifice Wax is going the way of Rabio Smack!Isn't it amaizing how in an economy that shouts out high unemployment rates, they can't find somebody with a Masters Degree to work the counters at Ginkgo's, Orifice Wax & Rabio Smack? Isn't it supposed to be an employer's market??
Thing is, I don't think employers are doing that well. Employers in general that is. That's because there's always a few that will thrive and grow beyond convceivable proportions in such times of ''difficulty''. Besides _those_ employers, many, and even including _them_ are employing the lowest common warm-body denominator to 'take care' of non-essential tasks, the kind of tasks that will be replaced by automotons and then by automation and computers to enable the more evolved self-serve society. Please don't confuse self-serving with self-suficiency. that's entirely something else. While utmost dependency on the few ''Providers'' is the objective obligation or necessity, We the People are supposed to work hard for that oaf of bread!
Pull ease doughnut keg a puppy! Instead, to sublimate your frustrations, may I suggest, hmmm..... ....that's a hard one. What else offers instant gratification to frustrations?
Well I ain't goin' there. Can't help ya there bud. I'm not qualified.
Plus, remember, everytime somebody kicks a puppy, the Bope lives one less year. -an'ee ain't got many more years left, so...
Juss remembah, yiewwwv got questions? They go DOH! Welcome to the service oriented society where everything is self-serve. Since _everybody_ is more than those who used to occupy the service continuum, there are therefore more services. See the logic??! It's part of the New World Fractal. Where there is repeatable and predictable order within Chaos. Kinda like Iraq-A-Mole. You fix an aneuristic thrombosis somewhere and another one pops up like magic elsewhere. I think I learnt that from Dick. Chainy, that is. Yes, I learnt something about Nature from Dick. See, everything _is_ possible, even with a shadowy, i mean, shadow e-Gubmint. That nature abhors a vacuum. You know, this new e-Gubmint (everything's gotta have an 'e-' before it nowadayz. I think it's something a long malign of tinkle up macro-wash ecola mix. I might've gotten a few things mixt up a long the way, but I sense I get the gist of it. I hope that might clear things up for you.
-As I set here listening to Muddy Waters- Ask naught what your coventry can do for you, ask what you can do to save you and your loved one's asses, keep your feet shod, your head covered, food on the table and your heads above water. And, like what the bankrupt Airline Industry says: ''Remember to always put the oxygen mask on yourslef before helping others with theirs''. Self-serve before serving is the going norm. Amongst the only places you'll see where 'selfless' serving is required is, say, if you are property of the Gubmint where you might not even know what you are serving nor why nowadayz while still being subject to prossecution for the distruction of Gubmint Property per Article 108 of the UCMJ, just because you got a freegin sunburn!
Note: That is the ACTUAL Article Number. I didn't make that up. See, I know my stuff! *LOL* Such useless brain clutter!!
Oh, an, I was told by the new no-bid rebuilders of the Gulf... ...no, not _that_ Gulf, the _American_ Gulf Coast, not the Persian Gulf, that thru this methodology, of managed self-service, efficiencies are going up. From now on, the citizenry will be required to perform ''other duties as required''. It's in everybody's yob description as default; whether employed, under-employed or unemployed, but, specially if under-employed, for other duties as required are usually delegated and relegated if one is, well, the characteristic man on top.
Oh, and guess who these new no-bid contracts are going to? The usual suspects: Fluor, Bechtel &... ...you guessed it: Halliburton. Juss 4 D Halliburton, it was felt they already had the experience and the more experience they get the more experience they'll have and the more experience they'll have the more no-bid contracts will go their way. It's called establishingh national and international core-competencies.
September 26 2005, 14:00:55 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Hmmm....
On "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, he had a sing along:Bechtel, KBR, and "everybody say it together... wait for it.... Haliburton"
I almost fell off the couch laughing, because they got everybody in the audience to play along. It was great.
September 27 2005, 13:27:28 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Hmmm....
*LOL* I happened to watch that one.Since you obviously liked that, you may also like this one:
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/k
Enjoy!
September 27 2005, 13:32:42 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Hmmm....
That was frickin' beautiful.September 27 2005, 14:32:33 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Hmmm....
See! Twisted minds can work in mysteriously beautiful ways!September 26 2005, 13:55:42 UTC 6 years ago
Hmmmmm....
As you can see, 'core competencies' are being established in key Boorgish areas, such as, but not limited to, like in the WTO, the World Bank, the WoT, Reconstruction, an ecumenical self-serve service industry, Chemical/Biological/Nookular Waste Generation/''Management'' & Disposal, Petro-resources, and other coveted natural resources, ''as required''.If PodCasting is not taken over by the Boorg, then, like Winston would say: There might be ''hope in the'' PodCasting. Wait, as I recall, that book had a sad ending.
Right now, the world is looking very much like a sick puppy. Speaking of ''puppys'', I wouldn't suggest you take on the whole world, but rather, keep up the good work with your attempts at PodCasting, as well as promulgating it, socializing it, and proselytizing it!
Now, time to kick some bunny. Awwwww, nawwww! Don't do that!
Soldier!! You know who to kick! Now, GO! GO! GO! MOVE! MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!
-errr, while you're doing that, where'd I leave my Ess You Vee / Pee Oh Vee??
Gotta go! There anuther Hurricane a comin' and prices will hit the Mad Max ceiling before the end of this second 'compassionate' term!
*Dicky! Is the dough in the safe-house?*
I tell ya, it's not easy being an Oilygarch!
*That'll be $5 please*
September 26 2005, 14:02:17 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Hmmmmm....
Watching your brain put together thoughts is a scary place... and I was worried about me...September 27 2005, 14:45:18 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Hmmmmm....
Hey! It takes two such brains to understand each other--not that that would make you feel any better, or worsse, but, perhaps understood, OK, maybe better, because you know there's company, although not as in misery loves company, but on the other hand, then yet again, although if looking at it this way-
-Awww heck! What a beautiful mind!-
-Welcome to the collective- *LOL*
*LOL* just happens to be *707* upside down, if you just happen to be reading it alla 'My Pet Goat'. *ROTFFL!*
Who knows, to give credit where credit might be due, the man could have been looking for some hidden meaning: -the answer to his nagging questions, questions that have been bugging him, even for some time, such as, but not limited to:
What? Huh? Whut? WTF? Hmm? ...which is enough to put the man into deep multi-tasking introspective loops from which there might be no escape, excepting by virtue of the occasional pork-rind.
Take care-